The first dailies were established in Japan in 1870.[1] In 2018 the number of the newspapers was 103 in the country.
Below is a list of newspapers published in Japan. (See also Japanese newspapers.)
Big five national newspapers in Japan includes: The Asahi Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, and Sankei Shimbun.[2]
Stance and circulation, only morning (2022)
- Yomiuri: conservative (high quality paper) 6,860,000
- Asahi: left (high quality paper) 4,290,000
- Chunichi Shimbun/Tokyo Shimbun: left (high quality paper) 2,320,000
- Mainichi: liberal/left (high quality paper) 1,930,000
- Nihon Keizai: business, conservative (high quality paper) 1,750,000
- Nikkan Geadai: left (tabloid) 1,680,000 (Nominal)
- Tokyo Sports: (sports) 1,390,000 (Nominal)
- Chunichi Sports/Tokyo Chunichi Sports: 1390,000
- Nikkan Sports: 1,350,000
- Houchi Shimbun: (sports) 1,350,000
- Sankei Sports: 1,230,000
- Yukan Fuji: right (tabloid) 1,050,000
- Sankei: right (high quality paper) 1,02 0,000
- Akahata (Red Flag): Communist Party bulletin 1,000,000
- Hokkaido Shimbun: left (high quality paper) 84,0000
- Daily Sports: 640,000
- Shizuoka Shimbun: left (high quality paper) 537,000
- Chugoku Shimbun: left (high quality paper) 510,000
- Nishinippon Shimbun: left (high quality paper) 427,000
- Shinano Mainichi Shimbun: liberal (high quality paper) 412 ,000
- Kobe Shimbun: left (high quality paper) 408,100